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Bolitochrome
at Fri Oct 15 14:59:01 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bolitochrome ]
Chimeras are much more common in egg-laying species than live-bearing species. I actually wouldn't be too surprised if the strange "Jungles" and other odd patterns that seem to pop up in BPs aren't easily reproducible because they are Chimeras.
I will try to find the paper on it. Someone was doing genetic work on a species of lizard and found that up to 15% of the offspring are Chimeras. It kind of makes sense. A whole bunch of embryos getting sorted into eggs. It wouldn't be too hard for 2 to get stuck into an egg instead of one. And, if even only half the time they fused into a new individual...
Paradoxes may be reproducible because animals, just like people, can carry genes that make their offspring more likely to twin. So if you get a paradox which most likely carries the gene for higher than normal twinning, your chances are relatively good at getting another paradox if were to breed it to a Het or visual of that morph.
All just speculation of course. In the end, they are just pretty snakes :D ----- Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.0 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband
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- Paradoxically Coincidental? - dwherp, Thu Oct 14 12:47:24 2010

- RE: Paradoxically Coincidental? - Lizards of Oz, Thu Oct 14 13:02:38 2010
- RE: Paradoxically Coincidental? - paulbuckley, Thu Oct 14 13:50:51 2010
- RE: Paradoxically Coincidental? - ajfreptiles, Thu Oct 14 14:39:51 2010
- Beautiful ! ! ! N/P - KBuckler, Thu Oct 14 14:58:03 2010
- RE: Paradoxically Coincidental? - DiamondFlame10, Thu Oct 14 15:12:54 2010
- RE: Paradoxically Coincidental? - SnakeJunkie77, Thu Oct 14 15:17:13 2010
- Paradoxically Coincidental? - JYohe, Thu Oct 14 16:27:06 2010
- Genetic, multi gene - Watever, Thu Oct 14 19:24:12 2010
Too Many Chimeras? - Bolitochrome, Fri Oct 15 14:59:01 2010
- RE: Paradoxically Coincidental? - Loren_Morales, Thu Oct 14 22:06:21 2010
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